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My mother has been watching episodes of The Rockford Files and asked me who was playing a guest role in the latest episode. (She does look things up on IMDB herself but it always annoys her when the photo of the actor is from a different stage of life so she can't recognize them by their appearance.) When I looked it up it turned out to be Robert Hogan, which led me to glance at his credits where I noticed in an incredibly dull coincidence that he once played a character on Law & Order SVU named Grant Harrison. Obviously it is more a testament to how generically ordinary the name is than any intentional easter egg but there you are. Grant Harrison and Vince McKinnon didn't even overlap in Bay City.

You have probably considered this as well, but he would have been in the studio in late 1975 for his role as Peter Goodwin on Somerset. I don't see any indication that the minor character crossed over between the shows or that John and Pat appeared on Somerset as late as that or that Jim and Mary would have appeared at all. I don't see any broadway credits for Lenard in the 1970s on the ibdb but that doesn't mean he wasn't working in NY at the time. Most of the AWHP synopses for 1971-1975 appear to be daily, so I don't know if there is any passing reference to the character there that might ring a bell and give a new trail to investigate.

He certainly disparaged it and wanted to bring in more upper- and lower-class characters. Some quotes from Eight Years in Another World: "Solid middle-class values were idealized through characters who were invariably white Anglo-Saxon Protestants with surnames such as Matthews, Hughes, Stewart, and Randolph." "The existing conventional soap opera family on “Another World” – upper-middle class, professional children of professional parents – was to be contrasted with a group of vigorous young people from the dirt-farm deprivation similar to the bleakness of the impoverished region in which I had grown up. They would join the Matthewses and the Randolphs slowly over several years and in their individual way fight for the social acceptance and economic security their complacent betters took for granted." "We were gaining Frames from Oklahoma and Carringtons from international society circles. The Matthewses and Randolphs remained but would no longer dominate the action." "It would take time to weave the Perrinis into the action, so I set about making Angie a focal figure in a secondary triangle to counterpoint that of Iris, Mac and Rachel. Angie fell slavishly in love with Willis in spite of his blatant pursuit of Carol Lamonte, whose wealth and social standing was worth cultivating far more than the meek little Italian girl from the wrong side of the tracks. The two triangles had much in common: both heroines were brunettes and both spoilers were blonde, a departure from prevailing soap opera formula. Both spoilers were also extremely rich while both heroines were from working class backgrounds, factors which reflected my own prejudices."

I forgot JFP was in the mix in this scenario. I did not watch but I know Linda and Robin went all around ABC with those characters and were revealed to be mother and daughter.

If I recall correctly they specifically wanted Felicia for Linda Dano. I don't remember whether there was discussion of other characters they would have used -- although I suppose once you have Felicia any of her friends and relations could be relevant.

Knowing this adds weight to Jacqui Courtney's fear that she might be fired early on as well.

Her AW character Sally Frame was engaged to Leigh Hobson played by Christopher Knight ... who was of course also Peter Brady.

Beautiful!

All credit to @slick jones for having documented it!

I don't seem to find the character mentioned in the Minor Characters, Day Players, or Actor Guide on the AWHP, but bizarrely there was a doctor named Pamela Bondi in 1986 who was Chris Chapin's colleague and occasional confidante who made Nancy jealous. She is mentioned in the synopses. Chris calls her in the lab here: http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/aw1986.html I haven't found her named in the credits anywhere online but she was around for a few months. ETA: then I thought to check the Soap Hoppers thread here and I find that she was played by Susan Bigelowe who is not in the AWHP actor guide. https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/55788-soap-hoppers-the-soap-actors-and-roles-thread/page/74/#findComment-1609894

Thanks! I didn't know anything about Runyon's family life and was not aware her daughter was an actress. I don't recognize the name Bayley Corman but she has various credits including Y&R.

Jennifer Runyon has died. Variety did not mention AW. Jennifer Runyon Dead: 'Ghostbusters' Actor Was 65 https://share.google/vIC5XiRxe5Y3FNkIT

Another random fact I had not known: Leon Russom understudied Stephen Schnetzer on Broadway in 1981 in a play with Claudette Colbert. https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/a-talent-for-murder-4133#OpeningNightCast

This is from a few months ago -- I came across a mention on the AWHP that Victoria Wyndham had not liked the actor and had refused to continue the storyline with him. http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/unknown.htm The unknown actor mentions auditioning for Dennis and Jamie -- I had not known that Dorothy Purser had been a casting director before she wrote for the show.

Do we know for certain whether she was fired or made the decision to leave? She might have wanted to focus on her cosmetics idea. It looks like she overlapped a little bit with Quinn in 1981, and then post-Linda Henrietta came on in 1982. Do you recall whether Linda and Quinn interacted? Based on the way they wrote out Quinn it's equally easy to believe they failed to appreciate Linda and let Vera Moore go, but it would be so much nicer if it was her own choice.